I have a MacBook Pro with English (US) keyboard layout. I usually hold the right-alt (option) key, and press E to activate the accented vowel insertion (it shows a placeholder where the accented letter—á
/Á
, é
/É
, í
/Í
, ó
/Ó
, ú
/Ú
—would appear), and after pressing the corresponding vowel it will be inserted in place. Similar procedure using the N key to insert the ñ
/Ñ
characters.
I also have an Ubuntu Desktop computer with Latin American keyboard layout. Latin American Spanish keyboards have the acute accent character ´
right after the P key. In order to insert an accented vowel, you type first the acute accent, and then the vowel. Similarly to insert the ñ
/Ñ
characters, one would type the ~
character and then the n
/N
letter.
Everything fine until here.
The problem is when I have to run a Linux OS on a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) on the Mac. I don't have the ´
character on the physical keyboard, and the right-alt (option) key doesn't have the same effect as in Mac OS.
The question here is, if there's a way to insert international (or at least accented vowels, which are the ones I mostly use) characters from the physical keyboard of the Mac, to the guest OS in the VirtualBox?